Eblaiten.adj.
/ˈɛbləʌɪt//ˈiːbləʌɪt/ A. n.
a. An ancient inhabitant of Ebla.
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the world > people > ethnicities > ancient peoples of the Middle East and Asia Minor > [noun] > person
Idumaeanc897
PhilistineeOE
PhilisteeOE
Philistianc1375
Midianitea1382
Moabitea1382
Chaldee1382
Scytha1387
Ammonitea1393
Alana1450
Amorite1530
Kenite1535
Scythian1543
Nabatean1555
Illyrian1584
Sabaean1607
Hittite1608
Homerite1613
White Hun1653
Judahite1708
Alarodian1709
Cimmerian1797
Thamudite1833
Himyarite1842
Akkadian1857
Saka1880
Ephthalite1882
Kassite1888
Hurrian1911
Hattian1914
Tarsian1914
Subarian1923
Gutian1928
Urartian1934
Nesite1949
Luvian1961
Eblaite1976
the world > time > relative time > the past > historical period > [noun] > other historical periods > one who lived in
post-diluvian1684
Old Kingdom1889
Villanovan1924
Warring States1929
Eblaite1976
1976 Biblical Archeologist XXXIX. 47/2 Only under Naram-Sîn did Akkad recover well enough to defeat the Eblaites and finally to destroy Ebla itself.
1978 C. Bermant & M. Weitzman Ebla (1979) vii. 161 Other Eblaites followed him on the throne of Mari.
b. A pre-Phoenician Semitic language examples of which were first discovered by Paolo Matthiae (b. 1940), Italian archaeologist and scholar, at the site of Ebla in 1974.
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the mind > language > languages of the world > Afro-Asiatic > [noun] > Semitic > Phoenician > pre-Aramaic, Hebrew, or Phoenician
Amorite1530
Ugaritic1936
Eblaite1976
1976 N.Y. Post 9 June 60 Scholars have been electrified by the parallels between the language of the tablets and the language of ancient Hebrews. Eblaite..seems to be a West Semitic form unlike Sumerian, Akkadian or any of the other ancient languages known to modern science.
1981 Word 1980 31 222 We have here an important isogloss for the chronological division of the Semitic languages into languages with š (Akkadian, Ugaritic, Eblaite,..), languages with h [etc.].
B. adj.
Of or pertaining to these people or their language.
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the world > people > ethnicities > ancient peoples of the Middle East and Asia Minor > [adjective]
MidianitishOE
MoabitishOE
Ammonitea1325
Moabitea1325
Amalekitea1382
Midianitea1382
Amorite1530
Scythian1567
Philistian1569
Sabaeana1586
Scythian-likea1599
Nabatean1614
Philistean1623
Scythic1623
Chaldean1732
Alarodian1737
Philistinian1773
Judahite1797
Philistine1842
Moabitic1851
Himyaritic1854
Akkadian1856
Scythized1861
Cimmerian1862
Idumaean1863
Himyaric1864
Hittite1871
Kassite1894
Hattian1908
Khaldian1908
Kenite1911
Hattic1913
Ephthalite1920
Subarian1923
Hurrian1928
Gutian1929
Saka1958
Luvian1963
Urartian1965
Eblaite1976
society > society and the community > customs, values, and civilization > a civilization or culture > [adjective] > specific Bronze Age
Aegean1890
Helladic1919
Aunjetitz1924
Lausitz1928
Apennine1932
Wessex1938
Únětice1947
Únětician1947
Eblaite1976
the mind > language > languages of the world > Afro-Asiatic > [adjective] > Semitic > pre-Aramaic, Hebrew, Phoenician
Ugaritic1938
Eblaite1976
1976 Biblical Archeologist XXXIX. 49/1 The presence in the Eblaite pantheon of some Sumerian deities.
1976 Sci. News 21 Aug. 118 One of the most important tablets is one containing a vocabulary of Eblaite and Sumeric words.
1978 C. Bermant & M. Weitzman Ebla (1979) vii. 160 A number of tablets have been discovered with a bearing on Eblaite law.
1980 C. Holme tr. P. Matthiae Ebla vii. 220 (heading) Value and originality of the Eblaite culture of the third millennium.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1989; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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